Deprecation of Google Chart Infographics API

[schinkel-zz]

The Google Chart Infographics API is deprecated since 2012 although it is still working there is no guarantee this will continue to work. Maybe you could include an alternative.

Info: https://developers.google.com/chart/infographics/docs/qr_codes

[ChristianRiesen]

Thanks. The api is technically dead (or they might pull the plug any second) but it's still around. I think I will change the helpers so this is split and making a url with it is just one possibility.

I feel that until it's dead, supplying it as a possibility is good, but then I'd like to also have a better (more stable?) one that could be used as a replacement. Do you perhaps know of one?

[barryvdh]

You could generate it inline: https://github.com/Bacon/BaconQrCode

[ChristianRiesen]

The difference is that the qr code here is a url which makes it easy to reuse. I think I'll just remove it and make a note about the deprecated url and point to this library, thanks for the input!

[barryvdh]

You can show the base64 image:

use BaconQrCode\Writer;
use BaconQrCode\Renderer\Image\Png;

$otpauth = self::getKeyUri($type, $label, $secret, $counter, $options);

$renderer = new Png();
$renderer->setWidth($width);
$renderer->setHeight($height);

$writer = new Writer($renderer);
$data = $writer->writeString($otpauth);

return 'data:image/png;base64,' . base64_encode($data);

[barryvdh]

You can just use that URL instead of the google one and add it as img src, should be supported in all modern browsers: http://caniuse.com/#feat=datauri